Dorothy-Grace Guerrero and Firoze Manji (ed) (2008) China’s New Role in Africa and the South: A search for a new perspective. 
Health & HIV/AIDS
RSS FeedAfrica: Performance-based contracting in health: The experience of three projects
2008-05-08
Performance-based contracting in health is an example of an output-based approach to improving health service delivery. In 2003 and 2004 GPOBA supported the design of three output-based aid schemes using performance-based contracting in Uganda, the D...
Malawi: Aids deaths drop
2008-05-08
Distributing free anti-HIV drugs in a district of Aids-ravaged Malawi helped cut the death toll by 10 percent within eight months, according to a study published on Saturday by The Lancet. The southern African country introduced free anti-retroviral ...
Malawi: ARVs reduce mortality
2008-05-09
Free antiretroviral therapy had significantly reduced mortality in rural Malawi , a study published in the latest Lancet journal has shown. Malawi, which records about 80 000 deaths from AIDS every year, made free ARV therapy available to more than 8...
Africa: One in three malaria drugs failing
2008-05-09
Some 35% of antimalarial drugs sold in six major African cities failed basic quality tests according to a study published today in PLoS ONE, a peer-reviewed open-access journal. The cities were in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. ...
South Africa: Counselling programme successfully promotes exclusive breast feeding
2008-05-09
A South African cohort study has shown that it is possible to increase rates of exclusive breast feeding among HIV-positive and HIV-negative women and their newborns in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The results of the study are reported in the April 2...
Africa: Campaign to restate and implement AU Abuja April 2001 15% Commitment
2008-04-30
On the 7th anniversary of the pledge by African Union member states to allocate 15% of national budgets to health, Nobel Prize Winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Africa Public Health Alliance 15% Now Campaign of which he is Honorary Chair have ur...
Global: Global warming increases HIV risk in developing countries
2008-05-01
Climate change is the newest threat to the increasing HIV and Aids epidemic worldwide, panelists said Wednesday at an HIV forum at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, the AAP/Age reports. The forum, titled "A Future Free of HIV," ...
Africa: Boosting vaginal health could cut HIV risk
2008-05-01
Oral treatment to improve vaginal health could have the potential to reduce the risk of infection with HIV for women, according to a study published in the May 15th edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Most new HIV infections in sub-Saharan Afric...
Uganda: High prevalence of cervical cancer-associated HPV strains in HIV-positive women
2008-05-01
Almost 50% of HIV-positive women in Rakai, Uganda are infected with strains of human papilloma virus (HPV) that are associated with a risk of cervical cancer, according to a study published in the online edition of Sexually Transmitted Infections. Th...
Global: Most high blood pressure in developing world - study
2008-05-02
More than 80 percent of high blood pressure disease occurs in the developing world, and mostly among younger adults, researchers said on Thursday in a report that belies the image of hypertension as a disease of harried, overfed rich people....
Uganda: Hard labour for HIV-Positive IDPs
2008-05-02
Melia Alanyo, 46, left northern Uganda for the capital city, Kampala, in the late 1980s when the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) started abducting, attacking and killing people in her village. She has spent the last 20 years in Kireka, a low-incom...
Kenya: Clergy urged to ditch sanctimony in HIV fight
2008-05-02
When Bishop James Otieno Okombo revealed he was HIV-positive in 1996, his archbishop summarily dismissed him, calling him a sinner and a disgrace to his church. "He [the archbishop] called me before a church leaders' conference and told me to repent;...
Kenya: ARV programmes recovering form post-election crisis
2008-05-02
Thousands of Kenyans who dropped out of HIV treatment programmes in January as a result of the country's post-election violence are gradually returning to clinics and the antiretroviral (ARV) drugs that help prolong their lives....
Guinea Ecuatorial: AIDS and the contradictions of Spanish development cooperation
Agustin Velloso (2008-05-02)
At the end of October 2007 in Madrid, Spanish President Zapatero promised 0.7% of GDP towards development aid during some workshops promoted by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and presided over by Queen Sofía. As ...
Africa: Aids epidemic outpacing response
2008-04-25
In less than two months, government officials and Aids activists from around the world will convene in New York to review the global HIV and Aids response. National progress reports, submitted earlier this year, will be compared to targets adopted by...
Global: World Malaria Day : World must go beyond palliatives
2008-04-25
April 25 has this year been declared World Malaria Day. Since 2001, April 25 has been observed as Africa Malaria Day, commemorating the signing of the historic Abuja Declaration by 44 African malaria-endemic countries at the African Malaria Summit he...
Global: Lifting HIV and AIDS-related travel restrictions
2008-04-25
The International Task Team on HIV-Related Travel Restrictions has pointed out that HIV-related travel restrictions raise serious human rights concerns, including violations of the principles of equality and non-discrimination, freedom of movement, a...
Africa: Epidemic outpacing response says UNAIDS
2008-04-25
In less than two months, government officials and AIDS activists from around the world will convene in New York to review the global HIV/AIDS response. Based on a review of the reports from Eastern and Southern Africa, the regions worst affected by t...
Global: Petition for retention of health workers
2008-04-18
The undersigned organizations, physicians, healthcare workers, and advocates are writing regarding our collective support for the pre-service training, support and retention of 140,000 new health professionals plus additional paraprofessional and com...
Africa: Call to faith-based communities to fight HIV, TB and malaria
2008-04-18
African Monitor Founder and President, Archbishop Njongo Ndungane, this morning reiterated the important work of the Global Fund in fighting HIV and AIDS, TB and Malaria and called on donors to provide resources necessary for the Fund to meet its obj...
Kenya: The sick now have access to treatment
2008-04-18
With the gradual return of peace across Kenya, the AMREF clinic in the heart of the sprawling Kibera slums has in February recorded an over 400% increase in patient numbers over the previous month as patients can now freely access the facility. Patie...
South Africa: ART recommended for all with CD4 counts below 350, say doctors
2008-04-18
Antiretroviral therapy should be recommended to all people with HIV who have CD4 cell counts below 350 cells/mm3 regardless of whether they have symptoms of HIV disease or not, according to new guidelines from the Southern African HIV Clinicians’ Soc...
Africa: Fund health systems, not projects, say researchers
2008-04-18
Investment in health systems — not just in specific health intervention projects — is key to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on maternal and child health, say experts. The 'Countdown to 2015' initiative — which tracks progress in re...
Sudan: The art of HIV education in the south
2008-04-18
In a tiny recording studio in the southern Sudanese capital, Juba, Patrick Taban's phone rings off the hook, but he pays it no attention - he's too wrapped up in his preparations for a big production later that evening. Taban heads The Heavens, a dra...
Global: More mothers and children on ARVs
2008-04-11
More mothers and children in developing countries are receiving treatment than ever before, according to a new report by the United Nations. But stigma, limited information and fragile health systems still pose hurdles to achieving the Millennium Dev...
Africa: HIV prevention studies: it's important to ask about anal sex
2008-04-11
Individuals enrolled on HIV prevention trials in Africa should be asked if they have had anal sex, suggest investigators in a article published in the online edition of Sexually Transmitted Infections. Their study found that 18% of women enrolled in ...
Kenya: Government to roll out male circumcision
2008-04-11
The Kenyan government has embarked on an ambitious national programme to fast track the national rollout of male circumcision as a means of preventing HIV. Results from three randomised controlled trials in South Africa, Kenya and Uganda, in 2006 sho...
Uganda: The cost of keeping children from knowing their HIV status
2008-04-11
Throughout his childhood, Gordon Turibamwe, 20, was sickly, suffering from frequent bouts of malaria and chest infections, but his father only told him he was HIV-positive when he was aged 16, something Gordon says caused him serious trauma. "I was s...
Burkina Faso: Children educate children about HIV/Aids
2008-04-04
Thousands of children in Burkina Faso are taking part in peer education programmes to promote awareness among the country’s young about the scourge of HIV/AIDS under a project backed by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The African Youth N...
Global: Major gains in treating women and children with AIDS - report
2008-04-04
A United Nations report shows progress in treating children with AIDS and preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV, but urges greater efforts to stem the tide of the global epidemic. According to Children and AIDS, there were some 2.1 million c...
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